So, you have like a million things on your to-do list at all times. You feel pulled in every direction. You work, take care of your house, husband, children, and the dog. Not to mention any extracurricular stuff like church, hobbies, etc. You are so overwhelmed and you don’t know how to keep your head above water. How do you stop being overwhelmed?

How do you know if something is a little thing? If you are so busy, you can’t think and you are in survival mode, then you do not need to have organize the garage on your to-do list.

If you have clean the baseboards in your house on your to-do list monthly and you are overwhelmed, mark that thing off your list!!

I mean, before I realized I had stupid petty stuff on my to-do list, it was filled with stuff like this. I am not saying cleaning out the garage or cleaning the baseboards isn’t important, but if you are going through a busy or a rough season of life, then you don’t need to worry about things like that.

You need to worry about taking care of your children, dating your husband, and taking care of yourself before those things.

You need to prioritize and worry about the RIGHT things, not petty things.

Trying to control the situation

You don’t need to stand over your husband or children when they are folding the towels to make sure they’re doing it “right”. I mean, think about it this way, how many times has someone came over to your house and opened the bathroom cabinet and scolded you for folding the towels the wrong way?

Exactly, no one cares. Just let your husband and children fold the towels for crying out loud.

You don’t have to micromanage every aspect of your family’s life.

Not to mention, how would it feel if you were folding towels and someone was standing over you dictating and bossing you around about how you were folding them “wrong”?

Would you want to fold them again? Probably not. At least I wouldn’t. LOL!

Stop trying to control everything. The world isn’t going to come to an end because your towels aren’t facing the same direction.

Get a grip mama!

Stop wasting energy over stupid stuff like this so you can concentrate on the things that REALLY MATTER.

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